China's Urban Management Convergence Analysis

With the general adoption of the market principle and internationalization, various materials need by economy and society circulated more speedy owns to developed science and convenient transportations and communication techniques. The quite high speed of material congregation in space location results in a trend of urbanization all over the world. But it nearly came to an end of urbanization in developed countries. In China, it still needs time to be matured. It can be seen the important role of urbanization in improving economy and society development of China day by day. The development and stability of a country is directly influenced by how its cities developed and to be managed.However, at the same time of urbanization and city modernization, convergence of city management in China occurs everywhere: Thousands of cities come to look like for their same buildings, grass grounds, fountains with music and center business districts, more and more constructions of Chinese cities were destroyed and re-built without reasonable planning and efficient organization. To be International Modern Cities was the strategic objective of one hundred and thirty-eight cities in China. Industry of most capitals, costal cities and municipal cities focused on the fields of information techniques, biomedical engineering, new material, commerce and insurance, etc.. OPEN DISTRICT HOT occurs in many cities recently. Serials of preferential policies on land using and tariffs were made by city governments in order to earn much more investments from foreign countries. In addition, the convergence trend occurs in colleges and universities. It was seen that different colleges and universities have similar curriculums, buildings, managing institutions and education patterns. Un-equality in city management and city-selfish departmentalism are other problems in many Chinese cities.The above convergence problems in city management result in a great deal of conflictions and un-stabilities in society. For example, the gap between the rich and the poor have been widen, a lot of city resource wasted, the costs of city development increased, MALFUNCTION MAGNIFIED EFFECT occurred, and most likely to be in inferior positions in international trades. As one word, convergence is harmful to innovation and urbanization...